ACT retirement Adventures - Day 7 - December 4th.

After a sleep in and a bit of a shopping trip we headed over to see the new Endangered Heritage location. We haven't been to Canberra since they moved shop to Fyshwick and there is certainly a better location but more space and plenty more scope for possible future expansion of council permissions are forthcoming.

the "lead light look" is partly in place. 

heaps more space in the showroom... but out the back is where the action is.
So much work going on restoring precious objects. 

 Endangered Heritage are looking after so many wonderful things - broken ceramics, old clothing, dear, loved, teddy bears, tapestries and many other objects.

Here we picked up Dad and headed off to Humble House Gallery, where we spent some time with

Roger (we met him last night at the party) , seeing his amazing gallery of Chinese furniture and art.  If we had unlimited funds.....  He has an amazing museum upstairs worth a look just for the display of wooden joints and how they fit together.

Then on to the national portrait gallery, where we enjoyed viewing the "Starstruck" exhibition.  This exhibition is of still taken from movies, but also features costumes restored by Endangered Heritage, which was the reason we went to see it. 

Having said this, the portrait gallery is always a great place to go and I could happily spend a day there if left to my own devices.  We also had lunch together at the cafe there, which was reasonably expensive,  but offered tasty food (with wine) .  

Another quite interesting thing of note was the display of finalists in the digital portraiture award.  The winner was "Selfie Factory" which is an art installation creating a temporary visual experience by printing a stream of selfies from instagram on receipt paper.  Somewhere in there is my selfie. 

It kept on raining. 

We had tea with Andrew, Vic, Dad and Kate before heading to the church near Kate's school for Mass and graduation.  

Dessert with Emily and Elle along with the others at San Churros which made for a latish night. Churros with dipping sauce, strawberries and banana was rather yummy.